So sensitive a boy Holden is ,because of which ,as for the society and the real life ,he has more personal experience of them .It is hard for him to adapt to the hypocritical and vulgar society .He could do nothing for it ,but to choose to be depressed and hesitated and to comfort himself with all kinds of unrealistic imagination .At the end ,he compromises to the real society ,instead of being the true traitor.

Why does Holden ultimately capitulate and come back home with Phoebe at the end?

Holden wants to distance himself from people as far as possible so that he never has to experience the pain of loving someone and then losing them again. After Allie, he cannot take another heartbreak. He wants to spare himself the pain of possibly losing Phoebe or seeing her grow up by getting as far away from her as possible. But when she insists on accompanying him, Holden cannot bear to ruin her life, either by letting her come with him or by leaving without her.

Possibilities are slim for Holden to take Phoebe to leave for the west .Maybe a person ,who is going to be an adult ,has the confidence to make himself or herself to live better ,but as for a too young child ,what he or she needs are education in school and comfortable life .Maybe they will eventually make Holden’s younger

sister become a hypocritical person who he hates .But Phoebe can not live without them .So at last ,he chooses to stay in New York instead of going to the west with his sister.

As a matter of fact, we know that something is not that easy for us to escape from. Because we do not just live for ourselves and what’s more ,we should have enough courage to face something we are not so satisfactory .Like Holden ,he chooses to come back home .From it ,we can see he has become more mature and has grown up a little .“Don’t ever tell anyone anything ,if you do ,you start missing everybody .” The sentence Holden speakes indicates that he seems to begin to accept and understand what his teacher Anduo Chiellini says , “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one .”At that moment ,he may have to admit it to be meaningful ,thought he never thinks that worth listening to. It is true that those people and things you hated very much before ,will be looked so quietly by you ,after you change your minds .Facing the life is also a kind of growing up .Growing up

sometimes is a cruel thing ,because we have to face many things that are not so ideal .Maturity means responsibility and the loss of youth ,but being mature also means a lasting peace of happy life .

第二篇：《麦田里的守望者》读后感(英文)

The catcher in the Rye is a typical novel which reflects the confusion and rebel of the 1950s in America history. From year 1945-1955, the American society seemed to be blissful on the surface while the fear of uncertainty caused by the growing communist challenge was affecting the culture of society. People became paranoiac and youngsters of the time became rebel or even violent resulting from the lost of aim and belief. Holton, the main character of this novel, is portrayed by the author as a typical teenager of the time.

Born in a wealthy middle class family, Holton was supposed to live a good life. However, he expelled from school four times, not dare to go home, wandering alone in York city one day and two nights, living in small inn, going to nightclubs, being alcoholism. He wanted to escape from the real world because he feel depressed, confused, filled with all sorts of unrealistic fantasies. This novel can be defined as both the tragedy of Holton's and the author Salinger, who is a young people of that generation.

In 1950, the Korean War started, which was an extension of the Cold War which strengthened the hostilities and conflicts between America and the Soviet Union. It definitely leaded to the panic of normal people because they were uncertain about the result of the competition between the superpowers. Teenagers were emotionally confused of the changing society, doubting their life and their future. Salinger has also written other novels such as Nine Stories, a collection of short stories even more depressed than The catcher in the Rye, which at least have expressed some hope at the end of the novel. Actually, characters like Holton become popular at that time, not in

literature only. In the film Rebel Without a Cause describe a very similar situation, the tendency of rebel and violence among youngsters in American culture at that time. In the early 1950s, the accumulation of emotions and conflicts were bedding the transform a few years later, which had significant influence on American culture of that period.